Deming Prize Shoji Shiba Honored with Deming Prize

The Deming Prize Committee has announced that Professor Shoji Shiba, Visiting
Professor at the Leaders for Manufacturing program in Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's Sloan School of Management, has been awarded the 2002
Deming Prize for Individuals.

The Deming
Prize is one of the highest awards for Total Quality Management (TQM) c0v
in the world. It was established in 1951 to commemorate the late Dr. William
Edwards Deming, who contributed greatly to Japan's proliferation of statistical
quality control after World War II. Deming's teachings helped Japan build
the foundation on which the level of its product quality has been recognized
as the highest in the world.

The citation for Professor Shiba's award was prepared
by Professor Noriaki Kano of the Deming Prize Committee. Professor Shiba
was honored with the Deming Prize for his dedication to developing the
globalization of TQM in the following areas:

Academic contribution through his excellent research
on introducing semantics to the problem-solving process and developing
the process gathering and analyzing soft data; systematizing the promotion
process of organizational activities, based on participation by everybody
in an organization; and clarification of factors influencing organizational
breakthrough.

Introducing TQM to industry in Hungary and the U.S.,
where it has been tested and confirmed that TQM methods developed in Japan,
is universally effective.

From the heterogeneous viewpoint of social science and international business,
he has given credibility to Japan's quality management-oriented society.
By integrating these elements, Shiba has provided an "out-of-the-box"
contrast to the homogeneous thinking of most Japanese quality experts.

As an international expert in TQM, Dr. Shiba is responsible for disseminating
the practices and methodologies of TQM to the industries and governments
of many countries, including Chile, China, France, Hungary, India, Ireland,
Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand,
the United Kingdom, the United States, and the former USSR. In the U.S.,
Professor Shiba has worked with a range of companies, including Teradyne,
Analog Devices, Bose, and Mercury Computer Systems.

Professor Shiba has taught at MIT Sloan for over 10
years, primarily in the Leaders for Manufacturing program, which was instrumental
in bringing him to the Institute. Until 2000, he was also professor of
business administration and dean of the School of Applied International
Studies of Tokiwa University in Japan. He is also is professor emeritus
of Tsukuba University in Japan, and also was an adjunct professor during
an earlier stay at MIT.

Professor Shiba has been the recipient of many awards.
In 2001 at MIT Sloan, he received the school's Teaching Excellence Award
for his work in course 15.097, Breakthrough Management. He was also honored
by the Ministry of Industry in Hungary by the establishment of the annual
IIASA Shiba award for his work there in TQM. Also, the president of the
Hungarian Republic has bestowed the Hungarian Republic's Small Cross of
Order of Merit upon Dr. Shiba for the high value and generous activity
which Dr. Shiba has accomplished in the field of quality improvement and
management in Hungary.

Professor Shiba is a co-founder of the Center for Quality
of Management, along with the late Tom Lee, MIT professor emeritus; Alex
D'Arbeloff, chairman of the MIT Corporation and co-founder of Teradyne
Corporation; and Ray Stata, founder of Analog Devices and a member of
the MIT Corporation and Executive Committee.

In honor of Professor Shiba's accomplishment,
LFM and MIT hosted a reception on Monday, December 2, 2002. Faculty and
staff members, LFM students and alums, friends and colleagues were in
attendance.

LFM Director Don Rosenfield presents Shoji with a
plaque that recognizes Shoji's commitment to LFM and MIT and his accomplishment
in receiving the Deming Prize.

Toby Woll (far left), Shoji, and Alex D'Arbeloff pose
with the actual Deming Prize and certificate written in Japanese calligraphy.